Refrigerator



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RRRRRRRRRRR R. No. 474,357.. Patented May 10, 1892.

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CHARLES BOLDT, OF ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND.

REFRIGERATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 474,357, dated May 10,1892.

Application led September 24, 1891. Serial No. 406,668. (No model.)

To a/ZZ whom t 71mg concern,.-

Be it known that I, CHARLES BoLDr, a citizen of the United States,residing atAnnapolis, in the county of Anne Arundel and State ofMaryland, have invented a new and useful Refrigerator, of which thefollowing is a specification.

My invention relates to refrigerators, and has for its object toconstruct an attractive and convenient fixture for restaurants, hotels,and dining-rooms adapted to receive and keep cool bottled liquids, andwhich, while reducing to a minimum the exposure of the same to the warmair, yet will readily permit of a consecutive removal of the bottles.

With these and other objects in view the invention consists in certainfeatures of oonstruction hereinafter specied, and particularly pointedout in the claim.

Referring to the drawings, Figure l is a front elevation of arefrigerator constructed in accordance with my invention, the same beingclosed. Fig. 2 is a similar view, the refrigerator being open.

Like numerals and letters of reference indicate like parts in both thefigures of the drawings.

l represents a refrigerator of ordinary exterior construction, uponwhich is mounted or which refrigerator has located at its upper end anordinary ice-box C. The front wall of the refrigerator consists of alarge door A, which is hinged to one edge of the opening, whereby byopening the door access to the entire interior of the refrigerator maybe had. Small openings are formed in the door A near the upper and lowerends thereof and in this instance at diametrically-opposite corners, theupper right-hand corner opening being provided with a hinged door a andthe lower lefthand corner opening being provided with a hinged door a.The openings covered by the doors ct a are of a size to admit of thepassage longitudinally of ordinary-sized bottles, such as commonlyemployed for beer, wine, pop, dre.

Leading from a point opposite the door A there is located within therefrigerator a zigzag shelving, the same comprising in this instancethree sections B B B, the shelf-sections extending from the oppositeside Walls of the refrigerator and terminating just short of that sideWall to which they are not connected. The upper section is connected tothe right-hand side wall and inclines over to within a short distance ofthe left-hand side wall. The second shelf is secured to the left-handside wall and inclines to the right-hand side Wall, terminating short ofthe same; and the lower shelf, like the upper one, is connected to theright-hand side wall and inclines over to and is secured to the lefthandside wall. A series of bottles placed upon the shelves may besuccessively withdrawn through the lower door ct when the main door isclosed, and uncooled bottles may be successivelyintroduced through theupper door a, so as to compensate for those withdrawn through the lowerdoor for consumption. In this manner it will be apparent that after theseries of bottles in the refrigerator once become cooled by alwayswithdrawing from the bottom door and refilling from the upper door coolbottles can always be obtained from the apparatus and un cooled bottleswill become cooled by their passage down the inclined shelves or descentot' the upper door to a point opposite the lower.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is- The combination,with the refrigerator having the front wall or door hinged thereto andprovided near its upper and lower ends with small openings orbottle-passages having hinged doors, of the series ofoppositely-declining shelf-sections extending from alternatelyoppositeside walls of the refrigerator and terminating short of the Walls towardwhich they decline, thus forminga zigzag shelf, substantially asspecified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixedmy signature in the presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES BOLDT. Vitnesses:

J AoKsoN BREWER, W. L. PEEIEEEE.

